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I drove through LA once at night in 2009 and was still stuck in traffic for hours. How do people in LA get anywhere on time? :huh:

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LateToCult
3 minutes ago, Shadow said:

I drove through LA once at night in 2009 and was still stuck in traffic for hours. How do people in LA get anywhere on time? :huh:

They don’t, babes :teenidle:

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SevenWonder
30 minutes ago, Shadow said:

I drove through LA once at night in 2009 and was still stuck in traffic for hours. How do people in LA get anywhere on time? :huh:

(As an LA native, you very quickly learn when to leave and when not to leave. And you just don't make plans at 7pm if it means you have to be on the 405. Unless you absolutely have no choice. For instance, I'm heading to San Diego for TDay and leaving late this evening.)

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I know this would be max expensive and take a long time but can't they do something to make the problem less bad? It seems awful lol

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Supersonic
11 hours ago, Lucas said:

I know this would be max expensive and take a long time but can't they do something to make the problem less bad? It seems awful lol

They don‘t want to, the only solution to relieve traffic congestion in big cities is attractive public transport and making cities attractive for pedestrians. And that would hurt the hugely powerful car industry, that is making BILLIONS of profit off of American cities being unliveable. 

LA has built a metro, but from what I heard, it is incredibly dangerous to be in there, and the routing of the metro seems to be quite inconvenient (it‘s a star-shaped system of lines, where you have to ride the metro into downtown to change, no matter where you go), there‘s very little connectivity between the neighborhoods themselves. 

For things like Thanksgiving/Holidays, where a lot of people would go home, having comfortable, fast and affordable Intercity train transit would relieve traffic congetions a lot as well. California does have a project to connect it‘s cities, but car manufacturers, especially Elon Musk, have lobbied heavily against it and caused delays by several years.

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LateToCult
20 hours ago, Lucas said:

I know this would be max expensive and take a long time but can't they do something to make the problem less bad? It seems awful lol

They would need to vastly improve LA’s current metro and bus systems. They would also need to create reliable and consistent rail options for surrounding metro areas like San Diego, Vegas, and Phoenix since there’s a lot of people leaving LA altogether to visit family. In short, not gonna happen in our lifetime. :teenidle:

9 hours ago, Supersonic said:

LA has built a metro, but from what I heard, it is incredibly dangerous to be in there

Saw a man beating his meat on the A line, a man eating scabs from an open wound on the D line, and a woman having a full conversation with her reflection on the B line…

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Tinnitus15
9 hours ago, Supersonic said:

They don‘t want to, the only solution to relieve traffic congestion in big cities is attractive public transport and making cities attractive for pedestrians. And that would hurt the hugely powerful car industry, that is making BILLIONS of profit off of American cities being unliveable. 

Well that’s only in USA. Europe is doing everything to modernise the public transport, expansions and so on. Lots of pedestrian crossings in major cities. Also Europe tends to ban cars in the city centre. It’s just weird American infrastructure problem. 

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ChicaSkas
22 hours ago, Shadow said:

I drove through LA once at night in 2009 and was still stuck in traffic for hours. How do people in LA get anywhere on time? :huh:

We don't. Everything is always 2 hours away from Everything Else. 

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ChicaSkas
1 hour ago, LateToCult said:

They would need to vastly improve LA’s current metro and bus systems. They would also need to create reliable and consistent rail options for surrounding metro areas like San Diego, Vegas, and Phoenix since there’s a lot of people leaving LA altogether to visit family. In short, not gonna happen in our lifetime. :teenidle:

Saw a man beating his meat on the A line, a man eating scabs from an open wound on the D line, and a woman having a full conversation with her reflection on the B line…

Yeah I would not go on the metro if you paid me. They tried to make it free the whole time the 10 Freeway was closed due to the fire, but nope

 

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22 hours ago, LateToCult said:

They don’t, babes :teenidle:

 

21 hours ago, SevenWonder said:

(As an LA native, you very quickly learn when to leave and when not to leave. And you just don't make plans at 7pm if it means you have to be on the 405. Unless you absolutely have no choice. For instance, I'm heading to San Diego for TDay and leaving late this evening.)

I've been spoiled living near Dallas, TX is far more graceful in regards to traffic apparently. Sending my sympathy. 

 

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